MINUTES OF THE 1978 A N N U A L B U S I N E S S M E E T I N G

OF THE PSYCHOMETRIC SOCIETY

The regular annual meeting of the Psychometric Society was held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario on August 25, 1978. President Karl G. J6reskog called the meeting to order at 4:45 p.m.

The minutes of the 1977 meeting were approved as published in the December 1977 issue of Psychometrika. Norm Cliff, Chairman of the Program Committee, together with Jim Ramsay reported on the Annual

Meeting and Karl J6reskog reported on the Joint European meeting held at Uppsala. The next Annual Meeting is being planned for early June, 1979 at a location to be selected after negotiations with the Mathematical Psychology Group are complete,

Joe Kruskal presented the report of the Election Committee. The new President.Elect is Melvin R. Novick; the new members of the Board of Trustees are Charles Lewis and James Ramsay; the new member of the Editorial Council is Joseph B. Kruskal. All terms begin September 25, 1978. It was moved, seconded, and voted to accept the report of the Election Committee.

Howard Wainer reported as Membership Chairman. It was moved, seconded, and voted to accept all applicants for Regular Membership. The following persons were elected as Regular Members:

William H. Batchelder Cynthia Hansson Null Mohammed Ben Debba Ulf Olsson Paul E. Bervaldi William C. Parr Gwyneth M. Boodoo Kurt Pawlik Jean Marie Bouroche Louis Primavera R. D. Divgi R. Robert Rentz Frederick C. Durling 1. Roskam Robert Golden Craig G. Schoon Bernard Gorman Elmar Schwarz Arum Kumar Gupta Gerhard Seidef Robert Gurney Jeffrey K. Smith George Huba Rolf Steyer Tom Baker Johnsen Lauri Tarkkonen F. Junglebloed Michel Tenenhaus Ralph E. Kenyon Jr. Edgar Topritzhofer Wolfgang Keeser Ven Urry W. M. Landrum Wim J. van der Linden R. L. Littlejohn R .F . van Naerssen Jan Bernd Lohmoller Peter John Vincett James Lynch Asta Vitenas Jack McArdle Marilyn D. Wang A. B. Mooijaart Bernd Waldeck Gilbert Nigel W. Waning Haruhiko Nishida Suzanne Winsberg

Hon ming Oliver Yau

The following persons were given the status of Student Member by action of the Board of Trustees:

Arlene Adler Stephen L. Bieber Gary Blose David Budescu R. J. Bullock Robert Cudeck Louis Gamble Larry V. Hedges David Jarjoura Ulla Funck Jensen

Jeffrey L. Johnson Hugh M. Kawabata Gulford Gage Kingsbury Matthew McGue Tom G. Menten Thomas O. Mwanika Donn E. Neumann Gary Pearlman Thomas R. Rocklin Joe Lee Rodgers

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Elizabeth Rodrigez Donald E. Russell Timothy A. Satalich N. J. Stoyanoff Paul A. Thompson

Ralph Turner Kenneth J. Wade Nicklas Ward Marc A. Wilson

Howard Wainer reported as Treasurer and indicated that the Society remains in sound financial health. The Secretary reported that the Board of Trustees had adopted the following resolutions and had taken the

following actions:

a. That Bruce Bloxom be appointed to serve out the remainder of Melvin Novick's term as trustee, his seat becoming vacant due to his election as President-Elect.

b. That a committee composed of Howard Wainer, Bert Green, and Norman Cliff be authorized to enter into final negotiations for the sale of back issues of Psychometrika.

c. That the budget for Managing Editor be increased to $7,500 for fiscal 1978 and to $8,000 for fiscal 1979. Other budgets are to remain at their current level for the fiscal year.

d. That Bert Green be authorized to enter into negotiations with the Copyright Clearance Center to establish a Psychometrika account to handle reprint charges.

e. That the Trustees recommend that the next Annual Meeting be held in early June and that a committee comprised of Norm Cliff, Mel Novick, and R. Duncan Luce be appointed to meet with the officers of the Mathematical Psychology Group to request that they join us in a joint meeting and to arrange a mutually acceptable site should it be decided to have a joint meeting.

f. That, as a matter of principle, the Trustees agree that quality of work should be one of the major factors in the procedures for selecting recipients of travel and other awards under the control of the Society.

g. That the Hare preferential voting system shall be the preferential voting system to be employed in Society elections.

Jim Ramsay, Review Editor, solicited reviewers for new books. It was moved, seconded, and voted to express the appreciation of the Society to MacMaster University, and

especially to Steve Link, Jim Ramsay, and Tony M arley for the excellent arrangements and facilities provided for the Spring Meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 5:30 p.m.

Mark I. Appelbaum Secretary